Lead Product Manager or Group Product Manager, Video Platform

About the Role

We are hiring a Lead or Group Product Manager for the Video Platform. You will own live streaming, historical playback, cloud backup and clip export, transcoding, third-party video ingest, and encryption of stored and exported video. Your work shows up every time someone opens a camera in Command, on a phone, through an API, or on a wall display.

You will work with backend, frontend, and mobile engineers, across every service our software touches. You will talk to customers to deliver revenue driving features and resolve video issues when playback, backup, or video quality breaks. You have shipped video products before, and know how to work with your customers and users to build a delightful playback experience.

We are committed to a thriving in-office culture. This role requires you to work onsite at our HQ in San Mateo, CA.

What You’ll Do

Own live view and historical playback. That includes the player, the timeline, scrubbing, time to first picture, stalls, and audio that stays with the video. Web, mobile, and API all count

Own cloud backup and clip export. Video is recorded on the camera and copied to the cloud. You decide retention, what the backup product includes, and how reliably a clip gets out when someone asks for it

Own reliable, quality streaming experiences, even under difficult environmental conditions. Many viewers on one camera, sites on LTE or a thin uplink, and cameras that keep recording when the cloud path is down

Own third-party video ingested via RTSP for playback in various formats and clients

Own transcoding. A lot of recorded video is HEVC. Some clients can only play H.264. You will work with engineering on when to transcode, what it costs, and how often it fails

Own customer-controlled encryption for stored and exported video, where the customer holds the keys

Set engineering quality standards for playback, framing, and cloud backups. Proactively identify and resolve customer issues using core performance metrics for Quality of Service

Work with sales, support, go-to-market, and design to deliver revenue-driving video products

What You Bring

8+ years as a product manager, currently at Lead or Group-level scope. You have owned a video area, not a single feature

At least 3 years at a company whose product is video. Streaming, playback, recording, a VMS, real-time video, or video infrastructure all count

More than one shipped product that an outside user watched live, played back, recorded, or exported

Able to work with engineers on HLS, WebRTC, and RTSP, on H.264 and HEVC, on transcoding, on cloud recording, and on encryption

Clear in writing and in the room, with engineers and with customers

Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or similar quantitative field

Must be willing and able to work onsite five days per week

US Employee Benefits

Verkada is committed to fostering a workplace environment that prioritizes the holistic health and wellbeing of our employees and their families by offering comprehensive wellness perks, benefits, and resources. Our benefits and perks programs include, but are not limited to:

Healthcare programs that can be tailored to meet the personal health and financial well-being needs - Premiums are 100% covered for the employee under at least one plan and 80% for family premiums under all plans

Nationwide medical, vision and dental coverage

Starting January 2027, Verkada will match a portion of an employee’s 401(k) contributions based on eligible earnings. Match vests on 2 year anniversary

Health Saving Account (HSA) with annual employer contributions and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) with tax saving options

Expanded mental health support

Paid parental leave policy & fertility benefits

Time off to relax and recharge through our paid holidays, firmwide extended holidays, flexible PTO and personal sick time

Professional development stipend

Wellness/fitness benefits

Healthy lunches provided daily

Commuter benefits

Additional Information

We do sponsor and take over sponsorship of employment visas for this role. If we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa.

Annual Pay Range

At Verkada, we want to attract and retain the best employees, and compensate them in a way that appropriately and fairly values their individual contribution to the company. With that in mind, we carefully consider a number of factors to determine the appropriate starting pay for an employee, including their primary work location and an assessment of a candidate's skills and experience, as well as market demands and internal parity. A Verkada employee may be eligible for additional forms of compensation, depending on their role, including sales incentives, discretionary bonuses, and/or equity in the company in the form of restricted stock units (RSUs)

Below is the annual on-target earnings (OTE) range for full-time employees for this position, comprised of base compensation and commissions (if applicable).

Estimated Annual Pay Range

$205,000—$270,000 USD